[...]
Archive for September, 2016
September 24th, 2016 - 11:55 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Cascade Mall shooting: Mayor vows to ‘bring the son of a bitch to justice’
Burlington mayor Steve Sexton said the “the city of Burlington has probably changed forever, but I don’t think our way of life needs to change,” while speaking about the Cascade Mall shooting. (Jessica Lee / The Seattle Times) Authorities still don’t know the motive for the Friday nigh[...]
September 24th, 2016 - 8:55 am § in Uncategorized
Trump supporter: Obama created racism
“Donald Trump’s campaign chair in a key Ohio county is resigning, following a firestorm over comments she made regarding racism and how it didn’t exist before President Obama took office. In an interview with the Guardian earlier this week, Kathy Miller, former chair of Trump’s campaign[...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 2:03 pm § in Misc.
An Invitation to Watch The Debate in Seattle With an Outstanding Moderator at a Great New Bar
Monday night THE-Ave.US and the Hotel-Hotel bar are going to have Joe Pakootas , candidate for Congress in Eastern Washington, as a local commentator for the first 2016 Presidential campaign debate. Joe is an outstanding candidate running against Kathy McMorris Rogers in the 5th CD of Washington St[...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 1:10 pm § in Uncategorized
GOP congressman explains Charlotte riots
Black people protest white cops killing black guy. White Republican congressman responds, “they hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” Actually, I suspect it’s more about white cops killing black people and getting away with it. Should we clue him in, or [...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 12:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Where’s the gun?
For three nights Charlotte, North Carolina, has experienced riots in the wake of a police killing of a black man named Keith Lamont Scott. The cops say he refused to obey commands to drop a gun. His family says he was unarmed. Earlier this week, the police chief said he would show video from police [...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 12:05 pm § in Politics, The Ave Scene
The Housing Market in Seattle ,, burn, baby, burn.
Ken Kailing SeattleTimes.com As an regional and urban planner in my time, I find the escalation of rents in Seattle very troublesome. Certainly, it is a matter of social equity. But more than that it’s a matter of City Pride. The rent and general housing issues in our city are contentiou[...]
Trotsky’s prophesies of Hitler, seem all too relevant to Trump
“Field-Marshal Hindenburg, the relic and symbol of the Hohenzollern Empire, now the Republic’s President, dissolved Parliament and appointed Heinrich Brüning Reichskanzler. Brüning ruled by decree, enforced a rigidly ‘deflationary’ policy, cut expenditure on social insurance, dismissed[...]